Case 1:17-cv-02989-AT Document 579 Filed 08/15/19 Page 31 of 153 adjustments in the display of the database, which requires us to touch the database again. (Id. at 165-67.) This is entirely contrary to the following testimony Mr. Barnes gave to this Court in the September 2018 hearing, just shy of two months prior to the November election: Q. Do state workers type in every race and candidates’ name into the GEMS server? A. Yes, sir. Q. So that is how the data gets loaded? A. Yes, sir. It is all manual entry. (Tr., Doc. 307 at 226-27.) Despite his testimony in September 2018 that the entire ballot building process is done in-house on a secure GEMS server, the ballot programming was not done by state staff by manual entry directly into the GEMS server housed in the State’s secure facility. Finally, once counties approve the ballot proofs and ballot database reports, CES provides each county with a single CD with a single file that is the County GEMS database. (Tr., Doc. 570 at 170.) The county takes the CD that contains its GEMS database, loads it into their local GEMS computer and creates the various media they use (i.e. memory cards) to program and power the DRE and optical scan units. (Id.) Election results data from the DRE machines is stored on the memory cards that is transferred back to the County GEMS server for tabulation of results that are subsequently relayed to the Secretary of State both via the Election Night Reporting System and later manual delivery of a CD. 31

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